Question

Hey I have been looking all over the internet and this site for hours and nothing has come up which can solve my problem. I am very new to iPhone programming so I am sorry if this question seems too nooby. I am attempting to add a UITableView into my main view controller (part of a view-based application), and then populate its cells with strings from an array (which I already have set up). I have tried cutting and pasting the code from a default navigation based app, yet that doesn’t work because the view-based app doesn’t know how to react to the code. My question is how should I go about populating the table (which I dragged into the xib) with the array I made? ANY help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

In SomeSubclassOfUITableViewController.m

First, implement the delegate methods:

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section 
{
    return [_myStrings count];
}

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
    return 1;
}

Then assign titles/subtitles/etc.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableViewcellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    static NSString *identifier = @"TableCellIdentifier";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:identifier];
    if (!cell) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc]
                 initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault
                 reuseIdentifier:identifier];
    }

    cell.textLabel.text = _myStrings[indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}